Korlat

Name: Korlat
Pseudonyms: none
Age: Unknown, but has served Anomander Rake for 14,000 years
Race: Tiste Andii
Appearance: Tall, black skinned woman with variable eye color
Warren: Kurald Galain
Further info: Second in command to Anomader Rake (MoI), Sister to Orfantal and blood-kin to Serrat, Lover of Whiskeyjack

Description

Korlat, as Anomader Rake's second-in-command, represents the Tiste Andii of Moon's Spawn in Rake's extended absence. Kallor questions her judgment because of her relationship with Whiskeyjack, but Rake is unfazed when apprised of it. Similarly, tension between Korlat and Whiskeyjack is dispelled by Rake's understanding of the Malazan deception and approval of their tactics. At a crucial point in the march on Coral, Korlat is unable to convince Brood of the need for a quick-march to support Dujek because of Kallor's arguments. Korlat and Orfantal leave brood to accompany Whiskeyjack to the end of the Pannion Domin campaign. Whiskeyjack had intended to retire after this campaign to live with Korlat in a remote mountain retreat.

First appearance in GotM, one of a group of Tiste Andii seeking to avenge Vorcan's murder of Serrat.
(GotM, US HB, p.482)

"...the shade of her eyes deepening to slate grey..." "Her eyes, soft brown..."
(GotM, US HB, pp. 401 and 483)

"Her violet eyes..."
(MoI, UK Trade, p.256)

"A tall, martial woman with midnight skin...extraordinary, almond-shaped eyes the colour of sun-bleached grass...Korlat, second to Anomander Rake."
(MoI, UK Trade, p.641)

"The Tiste Andii, Korlat was watching him. Their eyes locked. 'Such extraordinary beauty...' "
(Whiskeyjack in MoI, US HB, p.88)

".. a tall, black skinned woman... The newcomer's angled eyes held on the child playing on the hillside. The prairie wind sent strands of long black hair over her face. Fine, scaled armour glinted from beneath her black-dyed, rawhide shirt."
(MoI UK MMPB p.105)

"'I have spoken to Whiskeyjack,' Korlat said. 'He possesses an unshakeable integrity, Warlord. An honorable man'"
(MoI, US HB, p.132)

"'I did not ask for company - I asked for you... I wish us to become lovers, Whiskeyjack. Beginning tonight. I wish to awaken in your arms. I would know if you have feelings for me.'"
(MoI, US HB, p.341)

"Korlat's gaze narrowed searchingly. 'Pragmatic Malazans. Clear-eyed indeed. Why do we keep thinking of you as just soldiers? Brood, Rake, Kallor... myself, we all look upon you and Dujek and your army as something... ancillary. A sword we hope to grasp in our hands when the need arrives. It seems now that we're all fools. In fact, not one of us has come to realize the truth of how things now stand. ... You have become our backbone. Somehow, you are what gives us our strength, holds us together.'"
(MoI, US HB, p.401)

"Rake slowly turned to regard him. 'I had not expected to find her in such... renewal. A heart I'd believed closed forever. To see it flowering so...'"
(Rake to Whiskeyjack about Korlat, MoI, US HB, p.486)

"Itkovian would accompany the army that struck for Lest, which consisted of the Grey Swords, elements of the Tiste Andii, the Rhivi, Ilgres Barghast, a regiment of cavalry from Saltoan, and a handful of lesser mercenary companies from North Genabackis. Caladan Brood remained in overall command, with Kallor and Korlat as his seconds."
(MoI, US HB, p.582)

"And if some calamity had befallen Anomader Rake, then Korlat would find herself the commander to the dozen Tiste Andii who, like her, had remained with Brood's army. She would make that responsibility shortlived, for she had no wish to rule her own kin. She would free them to decide their own fates."
(MoI, US HB, p.650)

"Kurald Galain, the darkness within the soul, flowing outward, filling her limbs, sweeping round to swallow her feelings - the comfort of oblivion. Korlat stood, her back to the three lifeless figures on the hilltop that still lay where they fell. Stood, silent, the power the power of her warren - flickering, dimming to surges of pain - reaching out, seeking her kin."
(MoI, US HB, p.715)

"The enemy is destroyed, Korlat. What you would guard, staying with me, is the heart within you. You would fend it from pain. From loss. Sister, he deserves more. Go down now. To grieve is the gift of the living - a gift so many of our kin have long lost. Do not retreat. Descend, Korlat, to the mortal realm."
(Orfantal to Korlat, MoI, US HB, p.733)

"'We will hunt Kallor down, my brother and I'"
(Korlat to Rake, MoI, US HB, p.758)

Power

Soletaken Eleint

Controls the Kurald Galain warren for transport of herself and Whiskeyjack.
(MoI, US HB, p.370)

"She approached her companions, preparing her mind for the veering into her draconic form. The power that came with the transition had always frightened her, for it was a cold, hard manifestation, unhuman and inhuman both."
(MoI, US HB, p.489)

"They were, under her direction, exploring Kurald Galain, their Warren of Darkness, drawing upon its power in an effort to purge it of the Crippled God's infection. Whiskeyjack had seen, upon their short-lived, infrequent reappearances, the cost borne by Orfantal and the other Tiste Andii. But Korlat wanted Kurald Galain's power within reach - without fear of corruption - by the time battle was joined at Coral."
(MoI, US MMPB, p.773)

"...she strode down the slope, unfolding the power within her as she did so. Draconian blood, cold as ice in her veins, a promise of murder. Brutal, unwavering hunger."
(MoI, US HB, p.716)

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